Canada’s 2013 budget favors applied over basic research
MAR 22, 2013
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026864
Nature : To help eliminate the country’s deficit, Canada’s 2013 budget contains no major spending increases for science. However, some groups, mostly those involved in applied research, do stand to benefit. Research infrastructure at universities will receive $225 million, and another $325 million is being set aside for clean-energy companies over the next eight years. “The government’s relentless focus on business innovation does not represent a coherent science strategy,” said Paul Dufour, director of the science and technology consultancy Paulicy Works in Gatineau, Quebec. It is instead applying a “piecemeal approach” that represents very “short-term thinking.”
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